How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley

Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by satvikpendem on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:28PM (#41957495)

I play, just not in the same terms as my work. For example, I shoot bad guys, but I also know people in the military who refuse to play FPS games.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by delichon on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:45PM (#41957599)

  When I asked Kovařík about this, he brought up Euro Truck Simulator, a wilfully mundane game about hauling cargo. The developers, who are friends of his, once told him that many of their most enthusiastic players are ... truckers. Truckers who spend their time off from their trucking jobs pretending to do more trucking ... a lot of people actually enjoy the work they do. They just don’t always enjoy their jobs that much, because of all the things that get in the way of the work.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by Animats on Saturday October 26, 2024 @05:04PM (#41957716)

There's a whole genre of such games.

- Modern Farming. Has really good working models of expensive farming equipment. There are videos of real farmers playing it.

- Lawnmower Simulator. Yes, really. Mow enough lawns, get a better mower.

- Power Wash Simulator. Not kidding.[1]

The first game in this category was probably the famous Desert Bus.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5G-2qTupCk

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by DonHopkins on Saturday October 26, 2024 @05:06PM (#41957725)

If you like Power Wash Simulator, you'll LOVE the relaxing meditative idle game Paint Drying Simulator, and the exquisite organic fractal patina of its sequel, Paint Peeling Simulator. ;)

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by 0points on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:48AM (#41960130)

Then there's the PC Building Simulator

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by satvikpendem on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:55PM (#41957659)

Good for them, fortunately I'm not a trucker.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by lupusreal on Saturday October 26, 2024 @09:33PM (#41959176)

Fortunate for the truckers..

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by hluska on Saturday October 26, 2024 @09:51PM (#41959249)

Life is way too short to be boring.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by bowsamic on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:42AM (#41960112)

It’s boring to play CoD instead of Factorio?

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by hluska on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:08AM (#41961587)

No, it’s boring to use cheap personal attacks (like I responded to) instead of actually engaging. If I wanted to read that, I could find it in YouTube comments.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by bowsamic on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:35AM (#41962517)

"Good for them, fortunately I'm not a trucker."

How is that a personal attack?

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by taneq on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:23AM (#41961683)

I read that as "to play CAD" and was like "nah, Fusion's fun too". :D

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by jhbadger on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:51PM (#41959490)

A surprisingly number of airline pilots are flight simulator aficionados.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by johnisgood on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:39AM (#41961777)

I was going to say this, VATSIM is full of real pilots.

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